Results
If the result list is too large, please consider these hints
- Reduce the number of websites.
- Add more keywords.
- Use quotes for building terms from keywords. For example, the phrase banner image searches for all articles containing both words. However, "banner image" searches for the exact two-word phrase.
Movalog, Tutorials, 36 KB, 1821 words
This hack is deprecated in favour of the MT Protect plugin. Please use the plugin instead of this hack!
One of the biggest wants with MT is to password protect individual entries. There are several hacks and bits of code that allow you to password protect entries but many of them are long winded and many involve separate categories. I wanted a simple way to selectively password protect entries no matter what the category, what blog etc.
So I created a new field on the entry screen (click screenshot for a larger view) that would contain the password. For this to work you will need to be using MT 3.1x, mySQL and PHP. To see this in action see the front page on my blog, enter the password "password" and you will be granted access for 10 days....
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 33 KB, 2617 words
05.31.2005
Movable Type Cheat Sheet
One of the great things about Movable Type being localized into a number of languages and having such a broad international presence is that we get great contributions from our community around the world. The latest contribution is Jörg Petermann's Movable Type Cheat Sheet, which he's published in both German and English.
The Cheat Sheet, available in both PDF and PNG formats, covers all the standard Movable Type template tags, as well as common attributes for the tags and the date format used for output. Most of these tags also apply to TypePad's advanced templates as well, so it's worth keeping a copy of the Cheat Sheet...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 40 KB, 2953 words
Updated March 23, 2005
Once you are uploading images to your MT weblog with ease, you might on occassion want to wrap text on either side of the image, like so:
Placeholder Latin text - Vt enim quidam monumentis suis testati sunt, in Hispania pro consule et a sociis pecunias accepit emendicatas in auxilium aeris alieni et Lusitanorum quaedam oppida, quanquam nec imperata detrectarent et aduenienti portas patefacerent, diripuit hostiliter. Gallia fana templaque deum donis referta expilauit, urbes diruit saepius ob praedam quam ob delictum; unde factum, ut auro abundaret ternisque milibus nummum in libras promercale per Italiam prouinciasque diuenderet. In primo consulatu tria milia...
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alogblog, Plugins, 23 KB, 1763 words
This plugin enables you to use WYSIWYG editor easily and customzably in Movable Type. There are many available open WYSIWYG editors. I've used HTMLArea and FCKeditor. Both are very good, even though they give some loads to your PC. But as time goes by, this load could be trivial.
My alogblogMTinterface plugin uses many alternate templates. Therefore the users who use my alogblogMTinterface might have some troubles in personally adapting other WYSIWYG editors. Of course I also have the same trouble whenever new W~G editors or its MT plugins are released. So I decided to provide W~G in it independently.
One of the powerful features of FCKeditor is the Media...
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StyleMonkey, News, 14 KB, 173 words
Okay, I thought I had fixed my site for Opera last night, but alas it was broken in FireFox. As my user base is significantly higher for FireFox than it is for Opera AND the FireFox breakage rendered the site unusable while Operas breakage merely sent edges of the sidebar under the main section (awkward, but still usable), I've put it back the way it was. I'm going to fix it so it works for every browser but I need to do some other things in my real life first.
Sorry Opera users but it looks like you get the back burner again (for a little while at least).
What really amazes me about all this is that IE never flinched the entire time I was making changes. It was happy when FireFox...
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Eat Drink Sleep MT, Tutorials, 33 KB, 1854 words
Movable Type has a nifty feature called "alternate templates" which allows you to substitute the default MT interface with a customized one. These aren't "individual archive" or "category archive" template replacements, these are replacements for the actual entry-editing interface.
I've only made a handful of alternate templates, but more will be added here as I create and modify them. (You might want to look at set up first.) Currently available are: • Updated 2005/08/29: edit_entry.tmpl is for creating and editing entries. • Added 2005/05/30: preview_entry.tmpl is for previewing entries. (Deprecated. Superceded by the plugin Better Entry Preview.)...
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 14 KB, 213 words
We talked about ways to make your life easier with Firefox, and now there's some powerful new ways to hack the web pages you view, to customize the display of documents or extend and personalize web applications.
If you're familiar with the Greasemonkey extension we explained in the last post, then you'll understand why Dive Into Greasemonkey, the new guide from Mark Pilgrim, is going to be an indispensable resource.
Once you've read over the excellent examples in the book, check out Platypus. The Firefox extension will let you tweak and hack a page to your heart's desire, and then save the modifications as a Greasemonkey extension. If you really want to share your work with the...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 33 KB, 2011 words
Introduction
Movable Type is the premier weblog publishing platform for businesses, organizations, developers, and web designers. Powerful customization gives you control over everything you publish and the elegant interface keeps things simple and clear.
Features
• Unlimited Blogging
Movable Type offers the ability to publish an unlimited number of blogs quickly and easily through a single installation of the application. And the platform supports posting by as many authors as you need, with no limit on the numbers of entries, comments, or TrackBacks the system...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 25 KB, 982 words
Posting a New Entry
Problem
You want to post a new entry.
Solution
Click the New Post button in the Weblog Toolbar or use a Quickpost bookmarklet.
Discussion
Since entries are what weblogs are all about, it should come as no surprise that there are a number of ways to create them in Movable Type.
The two most likely ones are either to use the New Post button in the Weblog Toolbar or use a Quickpost bookmarklet that MT can help you create. See "Making posts quickly from your browser" for more on Quickposts.
When creating a new entry, you will have the chance to set the...
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Movalog, News, 28 KB, 806 words
At long last I've made some updates to the Style Generator to better fit with Six Apart's standard. This means that you can finally apply the tips discussed in this tutorial to stylesheets created using the style gen. Most of the other changes are mostly on the backend code so that it's easier for me to build on it in the future. The only real change on the frontend is the addition of a splash page that allows you to select the number of columns - as cool as the on-the-fly capability was it was a major pain to support. A big thank you to Six Apart for letting me use their images, I'm a terrible graphics designer!
The biggest feature I am working on right now is the ability to load...
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Six Apart ProNet Weblog, News, 53 KB, 4849 words
04.28.2005
Blogs as a complement to newspapers
Forbes online picked up an Associated Press story about the eleven blogs being published by the editorial staff of the News & Record in North Carolina.
The broad range of Movable Type-powered blogs have earned high praise from others in the journalism business. As Editor & Publisher said:
"When the paper's overhaul is complete, it may be a model for the sort of 21st century paper that many journalism big thinkers have been talking about, chewing over, and confabbing on for the last few years," wrote the industry-watching magazine Editor & Publisher. "Greensboro will be the first place where this conceptually...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 29 KB, 1025 words
There are several ways to make your life easier whilst having fun with HTML markup and CSS design.
Learning, the fun way
When I first tinkered around with HTML and CSS, I was a bit unsure and un-inspired as to what to do, but I employed a technique that some may frown upon. Using a variety of tools, I took a peek at stylesheets that had produced something I like. I didn't steal them but rather learnt from them on how to do such and such a thing. I would recommend trying this out as it is a hands on way to learn what various bits of CSS code do - and its much nicer to see it in action done the right way.
Sidebar Panels
If you use Mozilla/Firefox as your browser, you are in luck. EditCSS and...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 38 KB, 2790 words
Originally posted 9-28-04.
The ability to leave comments on other people's weblogs and accept comments on your own is one of the features that make blogs so compelling. Accepting comments on your blog however, can be like having an open house party where ill-behaved uninvited guests show up. TypeKey, a free service from Six Apart, can help you control who gets to comment on your weblog.
If you are setting up a new weblog in MT3.x, adding Typekey authentication is easy. You'll need to get a TypeKey token from TypeKey.com and select various comment settings in your weblog config preferences. If you have upgraded to MT3 from an earlier version of Movable Type and want to use TypeKey...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 33 KB, 2880 words
Here are some simple changes that even a non-CSS expert like me can implement to make some fundamental changes to the default styles of MT3 weblogs.
1. Moving the sidebar from the right to the left side. The default MT3 Stylesheets have the sidebar on the right side of the page. To move the sidebar to the left hand side you don't actually have to change the stylesheet at all. The changes are made to the Main Index template and any other archive template that has a sidebar. In the Main Index template, find the sidebar code section:
<div id="right"> <div class="sidebar">
Your sidebar code
</div> </div>
If your sidebar is currently on...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 37 KB, 2673 words
Updated. Originally posted March 29, 2004. Providing printer-friendly versions of your weblog entries can be useful to your weblog readers. For example, my cooking weblog has printer-friendly versions of the recipes like this. Learning Movable Type links to printer-friendly versions at the end of each entry. There are several ways to create printer-friendly versions. I've outlined two methods in this tutorial. The first method is a simple header tag and CSS trick that automatically generates printer-friendly pages whenever someone goes to print a page from your blog. The second method is a bit more involved, creating a printer-friendly archive template with associated...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 31 KB, 1150 words
Learning Movable Type has an article that guides you through the steps of creating a three blog layout. The only problem is that the #container width has ben set to 904 pixels. This means that on a 800x600 layout you're going to get the nasty horizontal scroll.
The best way around this is to create a fluid three column layout ( what are fluid/fixed layouts ?).
1.Change the width of #container to 90%
2.Delete #center and corresponding div tags in all your templates
3.Duplicate your sidebar, find the following/similar code in your stylesheet #right { float: left; width:200px; overflow: hidden; }
And replace it with the following: #right { float: right; width: 20%;...
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Movalog, Tutorials, 30 KB, 1205 words
UPDATE: No more CSS, have MT auto indent.
The "Primary Category" drop down menu just lists the categories sorted alphabetically and doesn't obey the category heirarchies you may have setup. This is especially annoying if you have several similarly named sub categories under different parent categories. So here's a hack that will change the way that field works, the categories will now obey the category heirarchy as shown in the screenshot (click for a larger view) It's probably best to note that I'm not the most perl savvy and this code may not be the most efficient/quickest/best way to do it but it works for me.
You'll need CMS.pm, open it up. Replace everything between
## Load...
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